This is a whimsical excerpt Joseph Voisin wrote when he was 17. He was apparently living in Netherby, Ontario, Canada. His poetic nature continued as he got older. He wrote a poem of similar style nine years later in a love letter to his future wife Mary Ann Yuncker.

Transcription:

Joseph Voisin is my; name and my pen; wriets the same the; grass is green and; the rose is red; and that is my; name if I am; dead Amen
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Joseph Voisin; Township of; Humberstone; Netherby PO; Ont 1875 19 November